Video: Texas is running out of water
Michael > July 4th, 2021, 09:10 AM
As Californians flee to Texas to escape drought and fire, they may be surprised to learn they've gone from one struggling hydrosystem to another.
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It's still hard, even after several years of watching news stories about dire water shortages and environmental damage from drought and fire across the western USA, for me to picture just how widespread the problem is.
I used to live in New Mexico - which is very arid - and settled in Houston for a few years. Houston is on the southeastern coast of Texas and part of the state's "green" region, but I've driven through the western part of the state many times.
I've always known there was desert in Texas, but as the video above shows, there are once green parts of the state that are now running low on water. And the state's antiquated water rights have now oversold the available water in all its rivers.
We are watching some once fertile parts of the planet slide into that apocalyptic desert future that so many low budget movies have depicted. What once seemed unreal and implausible as a future now seems more realistic.